S A Adetoro
@saadetoro.bsky.social
Writer | Mancunian | ND | Love
She/Her
Spec fic, gothic, folklore.
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She/Her
Spec fic, gothic, folklore.
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S A Adetoro
@saadetoro.bsky.social
· Feb 20
For the love of everyone, make your events/workshops hybrid. If your event does not include this option, do not claim to be 'diverse and inclusive' as you are inaccessible to a vast number of people.
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Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.
June 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.
As someone who just finished a creative writing MA, I couldn't agree more. Just write!
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 489:
You don't need a paper qualification to be a writer. Some courses may give you confidence; or access to other writers; or teach you the nuts and bolts of how to build a novel. But the piece of paper itself doesn't count for anything. Only what you write counts.
You don't need a paper qualification to be a writer. Some courses may give you confidence; or access to other writers; or teach you the nuts and bolts of how to build a novel. But the piece of paper itself doesn't count for anything. Only what you write counts.
May 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
As someone who just finished a creative writing MA, I couldn't agree more. Just write!
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I know you may have seen this today but just in case you ever have a doubt that so, so many British people in the highest echelons of their society had and have a baffling blindness to colonialism and its long, long shadow...
From @profdanhicks.bsky.social upcoming book - bsky.app/profile/prof...
From @profdanhicks.bsky.social upcoming book - bsky.app/profile/prof...
April 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I know you may have seen this today but just in case you ever have a doubt that so, so many British people in the highest echelons of their society had and have a baffling blindness to colonialism and its long, long shadow...
From @profdanhicks.bsky.social upcoming book - bsky.app/profile/prof...
From @profdanhicks.bsky.social upcoming book - bsky.app/profile/prof...
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Nope.
Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate
Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate
After you watch Sinners, you should read George R.R. Martin’s excellent and underrated vampire novel
After you watch Sinners, you should read George R.R. Martin’s excellent and underrated vampire novel
The Game of Thrones author writes more than great fantasy stories
www.polygon.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Nope.
Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate
Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate
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Also please include self-published authors when you think of indie, not just small presses 🙏
Polite reminder: if you want indie publishers, illustrators, authors, indie booksellers, other creatives to flourish, it’s all of our responsibility to buy from them and boost their work.
a bunch of blue rabbits holding hearts with the words " spread the love " below them
ALT: a bunch of blue rabbits holding hearts with the words " spread the love " below them
media.tenor.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Also please include self-published authors when you think of indie, not just small presses 🙏
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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Christmas cake and sunshine!
April 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Christmas cake and sunshine!
Poof!
Someone disappeared mid stride in the Northern Quarter... well, that's my take anyway.
I went to cross the road, and they were just sitting there as if someone up and vanished mid run... I think there's a story here.
Someone disappeared mid stride in the Northern Quarter... well, that's my take anyway.
I went to cross the road, and they were just sitting there as if someone up and vanished mid run... I think there's a story here.
April 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Poof!
Someone disappeared mid stride in the Northern Quarter... well, that's my take anyway.
I went to cross the road, and they were just sitting there as if someone up and vanished mid run... I think there's a story here.
Someone disappeared mid stride in the Northern Quarter... well, that's my take anyway.
I went to cross the road, and they were just sitting there as if someone up and vanished mid run... I think there's a story here.
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The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy.
The creative industries contribute £124bn.
Fucksake.
Stop AI copyright theft.
The creative industries contribute £124bn.
Fucksake.
Stop AI copyright theft.
"My choice in these volatile times is backing British brilliance," says Keir Starmer, who promises to deliver "British cars for British workers"
April 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy.
The creative industries contribute £124bn.
Fucksake.
Stop AI copyright theft.
The creative industries contribute £124bn.
Fucksake.
Stop AI copyright theft.
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It is bleakly funny reading todays UK papers & seeing the Treasury claiming that 'diplomacy' ensured they got hit with lower tariffs while economists point out in adjacent articles that it's because the UK has fuck-all trade post-Brexit that they got a low tariff.
April 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It is bleakly funny reading todays UK papers & seeing the Treasury claiming that 'diplomacy' ensured they got hit with lower tariffs while economists point out in adjacent articles that it's because the UK has fuck-all trade post-Brexit that they got a low tariff.
I loved The Garden of Delights, and such a treat to listen to @amalsingh.bsky.social read from his Novel. Thank you!
Back from lunch with a reading from @amalsingh.bsky.social’s novel The Garden of Delights. More about today’s readers at the link >> britishfantasysociety.org/bfs-online-w...
April 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I loved The Garden of Delights, and such a treat to listen to @amalsingh.bsky.social read from his Novel. Thank you!
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This Qingming—the day every year when Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites & make ritual offerings to ancestors— Xueting C. Ni reflects on the unique sense of Chinese horror, and why its stories remain under-explored.
britishfantasysociety.org/on-chinese-h...
britishfantasysociety.org/on-chinese-h...
April 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This Qingming—the day every year when Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites & make ritual offerings to ancestors— Xueting C. Ni reflects on the unique sense of Chinese horror, and why its stories remain under-explored.
britishfantasysociety.org/on-chinese-h...
britishfantasysociety.org/on-chinese-h...
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Just found out thanks to the latest update that Firefox has "AI" features. Here's how to switch them off.
How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox
If you want to get rid of all AI services and features introduced in Mozilla Firefox web browser, this article will help you. Mozilla Firefox 136.0 and later ve
www.askvg.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Just found out thanks to the latest update that Firefox has "AI" features. Here's how to switch them off.
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The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today.
Some very brief highlights:
🧵 1/8
Some very brief highlights:
🧵 1/8
April 2, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today.
Some very brief highlights:
🧵 1/8
Some very brief highlights:
🧵 1/8
New notebooks. After finishing my MA, I can't stand writing on my laptop, so back to basics.
April 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
New notebooks. After finishing my MA, I can't stand writing on my laptop, so back to basics.
Masking Saturday had me sleeping most of Sunday away... still regulating, will resume (gestures at thin air) soon...
April 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Masking Saturday had me sleeping most of Sunday away... still regulating, will resume (gestures at thin air) soon...
My new commute read from author @alethearlyons.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My new commute read from author @alethearlyons.bsky.social
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I strongly suspect that what we’re seeing with Gen AI is proof of the impact of what happens when you fail to teach even basic levels of image/visual comprehension to children.
They grow up to become adults who don’t value or understand the art they consume.
They grow up to become adults who don’t value or understand the art they consume.
March 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I strongly suspect that what we’re seeing with Gen AI is proof of the impact of what happens when you fail to teach even basic levels of image/visual comprehension to children.
They grow up to become adults who don’t value or understand the art they consume.
They grow up to become adults who don’t value or understand the art they consume.
I'll be at the #BlackBritishBookFestival this afternoon at Manchester Central Library repping the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social with @alethearlyons.bsky.social — come say hi!
March 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I'll be at the #BlackBritishBookFestival this afternoon at Manchester Central Library repping the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social with @alethearlyons.bsky.social — come say hi!
This!
This was my response in The Guardian 3 years ago when I was asked if my work was a response to the prevalence of whiteness in science fiction.
I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :
I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :
March 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This!
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And it's not only about the international SFF community but also those who can't afford to expose themselves to Covid. It would be really cool if instead of going back to in person cons only, we made the effort to keep the online part alive because... things are taught right now. We want to join you
March 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And it's not only about the international SFF community but also those who can't afford to expose themselves to Covid. It would be really cool if instead of going back to in person cons only, we made the effort to keep the online part alive because... things are taught right now. We want to join you
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So I will say this as gently as I can: given the current state of the world, cons (especially held in the US) should really keep or enhance their online programming instead of eliminating it. I understand it takes resources to run a hybrid con but the alternative is to exclude the rest of the world
March 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
So I will say this as gently as I can: given the current state of the world, cons (especially held in the US) should really keep or enhance their online programming instead of eliminating it. I understand it takes resources to run a hybrid con but the alternative is to exclude the rest of the world
I did this as a kid in Manchester, UK. Entered competitions with the TLM Carousels across the North West and Wales... an OG skedaddler!
My sister (troop leader) and I were the only Black dancers at every competition for a looooong time.
My sister (troop leader) and I were the only Black dancers at every competition for a looooong time.
March 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I did this as a kid in Manchester, UK. Entered competitions with the TLM Carousels across the North West and Wales... an OG skedaddler!
My sister (troop leader) and I were the only Black dancers at every competition for a looooong time.
My sister (troop leader) and I were the only Black dancers at every competition for a looooong time.
Modern folklore
"Reading the city sounds like something a psychogeographer might do, but in a sense we all do it" 🚶
A walk around our urban landscape is a kind of conversation between tagger and reader. Tagging is modern folklore, writes Sophia Kingshill from @folkloresociety.bsky.social ⬇️
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A walk around our urban landscape is a kind of conversation between tagger and reader. Tagging is modern folklore, writes Sophia Kingshill from @folkloresociety.bsky.social ⬇️
buff.ly/XNrRAuc
March 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Modern folklore